Hillary: But my husband Bill He is a political animal He eats and breathes politics I have to stick it out for as long I can If only for him
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: I am sure the big boys want me to But I am not going to Who do the big boys think they are
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: But the money keeps coming Thank god for Al Gore Who invented the Internet
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: My daughter Chelsea She got a hang of it She has started campaigning Have you seen
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: The brave men and women Who work the coal mines in Pennsylvania What will they think of me if I quit
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: But the people of Iraq who need a respite Who know better than Barack To blame me for the war in Iraq
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: But what if I quit And Barack picks someone else For running mate Eliot Spitzer imploded But have you seen Johnny boy lately He might be waiting in the wings
(Chorus) But Hillary Quit
Hillary: I am a numbers girl I am all about numbers Tell me if Obama has 2024 delegates yet If not, why do you want to hijack due process Are you a Jihadi?
This has been a model primary season. Every state got to feel it mattered. All the superdelegates will get to feel similarly important and outright indispensable. This will be their chance to make small talk to Bill Clinton and then go ahead and ignore him. The entire party in all 50 states will have been involved before we get the nominee. Wow, is this something or is this something? This is how the nomination process is supposed to play out. I am not bored.
Black Man, Woman
If you are a white male you can be mediocre like George Bush and still be president. But we have an amazing black man not running against some random white male, and an amazing woman not running against some random, mediocre white male, but against each other, and in such a tight race that their ending up on the same ticket is a foregone conclusion. Is this something or is this something?
The Progressive Way
Making progress on race and gender is not some kind an anti white male agenda. It is the progressive thing to do. I am male but I am for making progress on gender. So what does make me? It makes me a progressive, that's what. Sexism is not good for men either. It gnaws at your soul, saps energy overall.
Whimper
If Barack had won New Hampshire, he would have won with a bang, the race would have been over. If he had won New York or California on February 5, it would have been a victory with a bang. If he had won Ohio on March 4, it would have been woohoo. But the way this thing is playing out, it will go all the way to the convention, and he will barely sqeek by. That doesn't take away from the glamor though. Lincoln barely won. Kennedy barely won. I see greatness gleaming from Barack's impending narrow victory.
Race: Charged
Some people say, don't talk about race, that is a charged issue. Of course it is a charged issue. But I don't get the don't talk about it part.
I am like race, I am a charged individual. Talk about me.
Race Speech: A Victory
Barack scored a major victory with his race speech. The Wright wrong has been righted. Hillary's numbers are down again. There was talk he might want to give another speech on race. I wrote one last year.
In The News Pakistani Party’s Leader Chooses a Prime Minister New York Times Taiwan victor promises China ties BBC News Taslima episode shame for India NDTV.com Tibetan revolt has China's empire fraying at Times Online the roof of the world once again looks like a hostile place to most Chinese. ...... many Chinese do not believe that Tibet is secure and do not think things can go on as they are. ..... Fiercely resisting a Chinese campaign to force them into new towns, the nomads burst onto television screens around the world last week as they galloped into village after village at the head of protesting Tibetans. ...... “All the shops and businesses have been closed for three days,” said a Tibetan clerk, speaking by telephone from Litang on Friday. “It’s very tense.” ....... “Tibetans are being told they will be detained until the end of the Olympics; and once the Olympics are over court proceedings will begin,” a local source told Radio Free Asia. ...... “A Tibetan from Aba killed two Chinese people with a knife on Xiaotiandong Road,” said a taxi driver, repeating a rumour that spread like wildfire via the taxi radio link and text messages. ...... Local Chinese feared a terrorist attack. ..... China’s empire is fraying at the edges. ...... the city’s business people went to make money in Tibet but would never buy a home there. ..... “The central government’s policy towards Tibet has clearly failed” Wright to deliver 3 sermons at Wheeler Houston Chronicle Cuba Condemns Criticism of China The Associated Press All parties in Nepal must stop violence for polls: UN AFP Pope Baptizes Prominent Italian Muslim The Associated Press Did Bill Clinton Call Obama Unpatriotic? CBS News "I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country. And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics." ..... a "deliberately pathetic misreading of what the president said." ....... "As a Hispanic-American, I was particularly touched by his words," Richardson said. "Senator Obama has started a discussion in this country that is long overdue and rejects the politics of pitting race against race." Obama's speech on race rings true for Britain, too Guardian Polls suggest Obama rebounding from pastor flapBaltimore Sun McCain Gains from Clinton-Obama FeudABC News Was Bill Clinton Questioning Obama's Patriotism? ABC News Patriotism spat tars latest round of Clinton-Obama battleAFP Obama Adviser Likens Bill Clinton Comments to Joseph McCarthyBloomberg The Obama Dividend Newsweek All presidents are blind dates. ..... even many conservatives agree with liberal editorial writers that Obama's approach was brilliant ..... using the bully pulpit to instruct and illuminate and rearrange our mental furniture ...... The election of President Barack Hussein Obama would blow the minds of people in the Middle East and other regions ......... Just look at Kenya, where one tribe involved in the recent unrest loves Obama (because his father was a member), and the other tribe has no use for him. ...... He told the crowd that kids couldn't keep on "drinking eight sodas a day," then went in Bulworth's direction. "I know some of y'all got that cold Popeye's [chicken] out for breakfast. I know," Obama said with a smile. He continued: "That's why y'all laughing. You can't do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school … It's not good enough for you to say to your child, 'Do good in school,' and then when that child comes home, you got the TV set on, you got the radio on, you don't check their homework, there is not a book in the house, you've got the videogame playing." Instead of being jeered, he was cheered wildly. ......... that they need to stop being homophobic and anti-Semitic. ..... Obama knows how to think big, elevate the debate and transport the public to a new place. An Easter Break question: Can Hillary Clinton win? Baltimore Sun do-over votes in Florida and Michigan appear next-to-impossible ..... whether Clinton could conceivably pull off a superdelegate-fueled victory even if she trails in pledged delegates and popular votes. ..... "Hillary’s path to the nomination is not 'narrow,'" he wrote this week. "It’s barricaded."
Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to gain a little ‘va va voom’ from the Queen Times Online Controversial pastor coming to Wheeler Avenue Baptist Houston Chronicle China Shows Photos of Tibetan Protesters New York Times the toll from anti-Chinese riots in Tibet had risen to 19 dead and 623 injured. It said 18 civilians and a police officer had been confirmed dead in the unrest. The news agency said 241 police officers and 382 civilians had been injured in Lhasa. ...... began in Lhasa and have spread to many smaller towns on the Tibetan Plateau ..... 99 people have been killed in the government crackdown Op-Ed: After the End of the Affair David A. Paterson, who said Tuesday that his own extramarital affairs ended several years ago ...... In the parlance of American couples recovering from adultery, “D-Day” is the day you discover your spouse has been cheating on you. And as with the birth of Jesus, time is reset from there. ...... “The reactions of the betrayed spouse resemble the post-traumatic stress symptoms of the victims of traumatic events.” ..... “9/11 always reminds me of how it felt — one floor collapsing into another,” said a woman in her 40s who lives near Seattle. Another woman, writing in an Internet chat room, compared her husband’s affair to the Asian tsunami of 2004, which killed a quarter of a million people. ..... X.O.W. is the “ex-other woman,” O.N.S. is a “one-night stand” ...... A “cake man” is a husband who wants to have his wife and his mistress, too. ..... Wives from sub-Saharan Africa, a part of the world with the highest levels of male infidelity, told me how they went running down the street after their husbands, begging them to sleep at home. ........ If your spouse cheats, you’ve been living a lie. Americans describing their D-Day experiences say that they weren’t just shocked, jealous and profoundly upset, but that their whole view of the world had collapsed. “It robs you of your past,” one husband said. “What is real? What is fake?” ....... We’re the only country that peddles the idea that “It’s not the sex, it’s the lying.” (In France, it’s not the lying, it’s the sex.) America is also the only place I found that has a one-strike rule on fidelity: if someone cheats, the marriage is kaput. ....... he had had “a number of women” (and his wife had cheated, too). ...... Mrs. Spitzer discovered her husband’s apparent penchant for call girls only the night before he announced his “private matter” to the press. ....... marriage-industrial complex ..... A woman in Tennessee told me that she had gained 60 pounds since her husband found out she had been sleeping with a co-worker, in part because the couple now spends most of their free time on the couch rehashing the affair. “Neither of us cries as much as we used to, because of the antidepressants,” her husband said. What About Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn? eight million square feet of residential and commercial development on an eight-acre site extending east from Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, one of the borough’s most congested intersections ..... the nearby Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower — a classic stone phallus ..... Brooklyn’s vibrant answer to Times Square, minus the saccharine Disney décor. ...... the core of his concept, the charged relationship between the enclosed arena and the street Barack Obama's race speech an online video hit AFP Online searches for "Obama speech" rocketed 7,627 percent the day after the US presidential candidate took on the sensitive issue of race in a March 18 oratory, according to a Yahoo Buzz service that tracks what's hot online. ..... record-shattering honesty .... queries for 'I have a dream speech' and 'Martin Luther King Free at Last speech' both spiked the day after Obama spoke .... laid bare racial tensions in US culture that politicians usually avoid discussing..... Stewart made sport of "Obama talking to Americans about race as though they were adults." Obama race speech garners good reviewsBoston Globe Kenya: Obama Euphoria Now Hits Music Scene With a Bang AllAfrica.com the kind of attention he has attracted in the entertainment scene remains unmatched ..... The heat generated worldwide has attracted many celebrities across the world. Musicians, through their songs, are endorsing their favourite candidate. ..... Obama has more celebrity muscle going by the number of A-List entertainers rallying behind him ...... William, of the Black Eyed Peas did a pro-Obama song Yes We Can and its videos have generated more than five million hits on YouTube....... In Kenya, Cocoa Tea's Obama song has continued to rank top in a local radio station as "Beat of the Week" and is said to have one of the largest endorsements. ..... Revellers in Kenyan dancehalls usually go into a frenzy and dance with abandon, as soon as Obama's song rends the air. ...... Perhaps when he comes back to Kenya, he will look for me," says Nyadundo. Richardson says Clinton phone call got 'heated' MSNBC the conversation he had with Hillary ..... "It was tough to make the call, but I did. It got a little heated. It got a little tense. But it was understood, and I'm proud of my decision." .... He stressed that his decision to endorse Obama came a week before, but it was reinforced by the speech Obama gave on race last Tuesday. He cited his own racial background as a Hispanic to underscore why the speech was so significant. ....... I believe that Senator Obama is going to be the nomnee. ..... "I can tell you that there are very few people in American public life that have the breadth and depth of experience that Bill Richardson has," Obama said, adding that he would play a role in the campaign and hinting that he would have a role in a future Obama administration. New Mexico Governor Richardson Endorses Obama Voice of America Richardson endorses ObamaLos Angeles Times Richardson, Endorsing Obama, Looks for Generational ChangeWashington Post The line forms here for Rudy Giuliani campaign refund checks Los Angeles Times Some Tibetan Exiles Reject ‘Middle Way’ New York Times High Court admits Bihar plea against Lalu acquittal Hindu The Obama effectCanada.com Clinton Says Her Passport File BreachedThe Associated Press "an outrageous breach of security and privacy." ..... basic personal data such as name, citizenship, age, Social Security number and place of birth ..... the information could allow Obama's critics to dig deeper into his private life Obama, Clinton, McCain Passport Files Breached (Update1) Bloomberg State Department Employees Fired For Snooping Obama PassportU.S. News & World Report Clinton extends poll lead over ObamaIrish Times A top Nepali blogger recalls late King Mahendra NepalNews Kathmandu-based intelligentsia and expatriates say they anxiously await for Maila Baje’s postings every week.
Barack Obama's pastor quits campaign after explosive 9/11 remarks Telegraph.co.uk The clips show Mr Obama's spiritual mentor railing against Hillary Clinton because of her race, comparing Mr Obama to Jesus and blaming America for the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks. In one sermon he takes aim at former US president Bill Clinton's supposedly good relationship with the black community...... "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty," the clergyman boomed. ..... Geraldine Ferraro, a prominent Clinton supporter and 1984 vice-presidential candidate, had earlier asserted that Mr Obama was “only in this position” because of his skin colour. ....... a newspaper column in which Rev Wright was quoted telling audiences that they should sing “God Damn America” instead of “God Bless America”.
One wrong white woman, one wrong black man, both of them prominent, one having run for Vice President, another a pastor to a would be president. This is a perfect example of two wrongs not making a right.
Hillary is not responsible for what Ferraro said, Barack is not responsible for what Wright said. Neither Ferraro nor Wright will see the light any time soon, but both are out of the campaigns, and that is the best the two campaigns could hope for.
But let's get real. The sentiments these two expressed did not come from the moon. These sentiments pervade life in America, now they also need to be talked about in public life. Conversation is the best, most healing way to deal with the issues of race. Ferraro and Wright have given us an opportunity to discuss race openly. Race is the elephant in the room we too often ignore. I hope we also talk gender. But I hope we don't wait until some prominent Obama person says something so very clearly sexist.
I too was hoping this thing would be over on March 4. (Hillary Should Concede March 4) Instead it just keeps going on and on and on. I did not lose my temper, actually I am having fun. This can go on all the way to the convention, and I will be okay. But Ferraro and Wright blew off the top. They could not contain themselves. They lost their cool.
Ferraro is from a different generation. She probably thinks black people are poorer because they are lazy, stuff like that. I met people in Kentucky who talked of people living in the trees. That was their idea of foreign students.
Black America feels the frustrations. Black America has been wronged. History is testimony. Black America continues to be marginalized. There is concrete data on racial disparity. I felt the disenchantment as a Madhesi in Nepal. I have said after Nepal gets a new constitution that gives us Madhesis our own state, then, in that new Nepal, for the first time, we Madhesis can claim Nepal as our own country, a country that has never before really been ours. (Madhesi Movement Victory In Nepal) I can imagine blacks feeling the same way about America. We were born here, we live here, but this country is not fully ours. We are second class.
I hope we can capitalize on some of Wright's comments to stare focus on the concrete data on disparity.
There is legitimate anger in the black community in this country. That anger has to be vented. But that can only be the first step. Ultimately it has to be less about finger pointing, and more about dealing with the concrete data on disparity. That is why Barack talks little about race and talks mostly about education, health, jobs. But there is no avoiding race as a topic.
Ferraro and Wright are two Clinton and Obama fans who went overboard. We should forgive both.
Note To Ferraro
Barack is a white man. What do you mean? He was born half white. He was raised by his white mother and white grandparents.
We have to fight in Pennsylvania like it were a primary and not a caucus. The war will be waged through TV ads. The two dozen ads run by Obama 08 in OH and TX were disappointing. First, two dozen, that is too many. You can only run a total of five. Two, the ads lacked aesthetics, focus, intensity. They did not grip. The ads we ran in OH and TX said we have a lot of money that we raised in February and not much else.
Some of the early Obama ads were great.
People don't know Barack Obama. By now they might know the word Obama, but that does not mean they know him. That has to be the starting point.
(1) Bio
All Dem voters in Pennsylvania should be able to spout about five biographical facts about Barack. If not, we lose. Policy is not enough. People need a story before they will vote. They need to connect.
(2) Mother, Health Care
This is my absolute favorite ad of all Obama 08 ads. This is not racial pandering. This is not like saying, oh look good white people, Obama was raised by a white mother. Barack can talk about his mother like it was okay for Bill Clinton to talk about his father in 1992. This is not about race, this is about introducing the man. How do you hide the person who raised him? Especially when that person is the reason he is so passionate about health care, his signature issue.
(3) Wife, Kids
(4) Hillary
Cut an ad that says Hillary started the Iraq War. She did not read the intelligence report before voting. There were no weapons of mass destruction. It was not Saddam but Bin Laden who was behind 9/11. Iraq was an expensive distraction from the legitimate fight on the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the border areas. Look all we could have at home with all that money.
(5) Victory, Momentum
Brag about our victory and strength. How many volunteers, how many donors? Largest grassroots movement in history. How many states? How many votes? Claim delegate victories in Nevada and Texas. Point out Hillary did not win Michigan and Florida.
Run these five ads on and on. More than five will be too many.
Wyoming Erases Hillary's March 4 Gain
Hillary made a net gain of four delegates on March 4. One Obama victory in Wyoming, and that margin is poof.
Too Much Loving
A man is entitled to loving his wife, but this much loving? Bill Clinton is spending way too much time on the phone with the superdelegates.
GOP to Push for NY Gov ImpeachmentThe Associated Press One in Four Women in Teens Have STD’s, Study Finds New York Times 1 in 4 Teen Girls Has Sexual DiseaseThe Associated Press STDs rife among US teenage girlsBBC News Spitzer in 'Transition Talks'; Had Planned to Quit Last Night ABC News Spitzer had planned to announce his resignation at 7 p.m. last night but abruptly changed his mind on advice from his lawyers ...... Spitzer's resignation could still come as early as today, and that Spitzer was involved in "transition talks." ..... "It is inevitable; it is just a question of when," said one cabinet-level New York state official. ..... Paterson and his chief of staff reportedly spent the morning reviewing organization charts and assessing which members of the Spitzer administration might be kept on once he resigns. ..... Spitzer's lawyers are already in negotiations over what criminal charges the governor could face in a plea negotiation. .... financial crimes involving alleged violations of the law in the way Spitzer moved money through a series of accounts to pay for his prostitutes ..... An offer to resign as governor could be part of any negotiated package Obama Courts Mississippi as It Goes to Polls New York Times a rare chance for Democrats here to play a role in the presidential nominating process ..... a commanding lead in polls in the year’s final primary in the Deep South. ..... African-Americans account for 36 percent of the population, the highest in the nation. Mr. Obama was hoping to repeat his showing in other Southern states, which he has carried by double-digit margins. ...... ordered a breakfast of hard-scrambled eggs, turkey sausage, wheat toast and grits. ..... “I promise when I’m president of the United States, I’ll come back to the Delta,” he said. “You all keep me in your prayers, now.” ...... his campaign portrayed her as having grossly exaggerated her foreign policy experience as first lady. ..... the Obama campaign fired back by saying that the energy bill she had voted against she had voted against “actually raised taxes on oil companies and made the largest investment in renewable energy in our nation’s history.” ........ there was “no reason to believe” that “she was a key player in foreign policy at any time during the Clinton administration.” ...... “She did not sit in on National Security Council meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the Situation Room. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy, nor did she have her own national security staff. She did not do any heavy-lifting with foreign governments, whether they were friendly or not. She never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis. As far as the record shows, Senator Clinton never answered the phone either to make a decision on any pressing national security issue — not at 3 a.m. or at any other time of day.” ......... Her claims of helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland have been debunked ...... had won about twice as many states as Mrs. Clinton. ..... and you start — and your campaign starts — leaking photographs of me when I’m traveling overseas wearing the native clothes of those folks to make people afraid, and then you run an ad talking about who is going to answer the phone at 3 in the morning, an ad straight out of the Republican playbook, that’s not real change,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s not real change. That’s the same old thing.” Aides Say They Expect Spitzer to Resign New York Times Paterson and his staff have begun laying the groundwork for him to take over as governor and are reaching out to members of the Legislature .... a high-priced prostitution ring broken up last week by federal authorities ..... he would begin moving to have Mr. Spitzer impeached if the governor did not step down within 48 hours. ...... he had used the prostitution service before, although it was not clear how often. ..... did not appear early Tuesday for his regular morning jog. ...... The news was met with disbelief and shock in Albany, a capital accustomed to scandal. Some legislative assistants said they were too stunned to speak, and lawmakers gathered around television sets in hushed offices, trying to make sense of what had happened. ....... “We’re at a total standstill” ...... “Everybody is stunned. Everybody is absolutely stunned.” ...... structuring, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. ...... Bruno, the state’s top Republican, would assume the duties of the lieutenant governor. ...... On Saturday night, he attended the Gridiron Club annual dinner, a political roast put on by Washington journalists, and appeared ebullient, according to people in attendance. ....... Silda Wall Spitzer, who was among them, told her husband that he should not resign in haste ........ the Emperor’s Club provided women to clients in London, Paris, Miami and other cities, and charged them between $1,000 and $5,500 an hour. ...... He testified before Congress about the bond insurance crisis the following morning. Among the open questions is where Mr. Spitzer’s security detail was while the prostitute was inside the hotel. ......... Room 871 at the Mayflower that evening was registered under the name George Fox. ....... a few of the prostitutes came to realize he was the governor of New York. ....... Room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel had been registered in Mr. Fox’s name with Mr. Spitzer’s Fifth Avenue address ....... In a wiretapped conversation after the encounter, the prostitute, Kristen, called her booker to inform her that the session had gone well, and that she did not find the client “difficult,” as other prostitutes apparently had ........ sometimes asks the women “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.” ....... Spitzer was elected in a landslide in 2006, capitalizing on his popularity he won as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” ....... With a reputation for personal probity and independence, he pledged to bring higher ethical standards to the statehouse. Spitzer Said to Be Weighing Resignation his Fifth Avenue apartment ..... he had used the prostitution service before, although it was not clear how often. Clinton at Home in Scranton New York Timesthe town where her father was raised and where she visited often as a child ...... went even wilder when she said she would be back on Saturday for this city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the biggest in the country. ...... every time she hit on a brand name — Scranton Lace mills, Diamond Avenue, Revello’s Pizza, Joe Paterno — the crowd roared. ...... he’s buried here and I have a feeling he’s here in spirit ..... for whom seeing Mrs. Clinton seemed to be a near-religious experience. They waited in line for nearly four hours in the cold before getting in. ....... “I was praying I would meet her before my surgery,” he said. Obama up in Mississippi, Clinton on to Penn. Chicago Tribune the long, 42-day march through the eventless desert leading to the April 22 ..... 33 delegates at stake. ...... Clinton's husband suggesting that Obama and Clinton together might be an "unstoppable force'' on the same ticket ...... "I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who is first place," Obama said, in Mississippi. ...... Obama's two Mississippi events on Monday drew heavily black audiences that cheered him unabashedly. Obama shuns VP talk, says he's No. 1Chicago Tribune Obama Favored in Mississippi PrimaryVoice of America Clinton keeps her eye on big prize The Press Association Hillary Clinton's Spitzer Problem Washington Post Hillary Clinton erases Eliot Spitzer in a New York minuteLos Angeles Times as state attorney general, he went after prostitution rings and the media publicity attached thereto. ..... Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, who publicly apologized last year for conducting an illicit affair with the wife of one of his top aides. ..... Antonio Villaraigosa, another mayor, who also announced his endorsement of Clinton last year and then soon after also announced his impending divorce due to a long-running love affair with a local TV anchorwoman. .... Eliot "Let's give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants" Spitzer. ...... the number of visitors to websites with Spitzer stories absolutely rocketed off the charts ....... the Spitzer endorsement on the Clinton website disappeared. Vanished. Gone. Poof. Like he never happened to her last May. ...... "I'm not going to comment on an ongoing legal case." Succession in the New York State Constitution New York Times, United States Lt. Governor Could Replace Spitzer in NY The Associated Press Eliot Spitzer’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year in Office Wall Street Journal Sixteen months ago he was elected governor with a commanding 70% of the vote. ...... his tenure was been punctuated by screw-ups, scandals, and just plain stupid politics .... “I’m not naturally suited to this job, perhaps.” ..... Spitzer’s most well-known mishap was championing a plan to provide driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. ...... His hard-charging style put off members of his own party, and his unwillingness to compromise alienated him from potential allies in Albany. ...... just 23% said they would vote for him again. ..... there was no comparison for Spitzer’s downward spiral. “Not in modern history,” he said. “It’s a complete reversal of fortune.” Emperors Club prostitute: 'I have a way of dealing' Baltimore Sun, United States
It Wasn't the Sex; Suspicious $$ Transfers Led to Spitzer ABC News triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer's suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes ..... the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn't hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT ..... As recently as this past Valentine's Day, Feb. 13, Spitzer, who officials say is identified in a federal complaint as "Client 9," arranged for a prostitute "Kristen" to meet him in Washington, D.C. ..... The woman met Client 9 at the Mayflower Hotel, room 871, "for her tryst" ...... Client 9 also is alleged to have paid for the woman's train tickets, cab fare, mini bar and room service, travel time and hotel. ..... "Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need" After Spitzer, first black governor in New York history on deckNewsday Less than two years after he reluctantly ran for lieutenant governor, David Paterson is suddenly in line to be just the eighth black governor in American history ....... Paterson, the 53-year-old Democrat, legally blind career politician from Harlem is well respected by Republicans and Democrats. .... Koch recently called Paterson "very capable, not withstanding his near sightlessness. It's never impeded his public actions or his personal actions and he's really overcome it in an extraordinary way." ...... memorized lengthy, impassioned speeches without missing a mark. ..... a guy who likes to get along with people ...... Paterson has enjoyed a good relationship with Spitzer's chief nemesis, Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, despite being the architect behind getting Democrats to within one seat of taking control of the Senate. In pointed yet often humorous floor debates, a kind of father-son relationship was evident between the Harlem Democrat and the rural, upstate Republican. ....... so focused was he on taking control of the Senate and becoming majority leader. ....... Spitzer, he appears dead in the political water. RPT-FACTBOX-New York may get first African-American governorReuters On the Hill, Stunned Silence on Spitzer Washington Post, United States "I was absolutely shellshocked," King said of the Spitzer news. "I've never heard any rumors, any whispers, anything at all." ....... "I've never known a guy who was more self-righteous or more unforgiving than Eliot Spitzer," King said. Fox Erroneously Reports Resignation Houston Chronicle, United States Spitzer Apologizes, Does Not Resign Washington Post, United States Clinton Declines to Comment on Spitzer Washington Post, United States Dear Hillary: Eliot Spitzer Was "Already Vetted" Too Huffington Post, NY Emporers Club: The web site behind the Spitzer scandal 7Online.com, NY Obama dismisses joint ticket with Clinton Reuters Obama Rejects Clinton Suggestion of Vice Presidential NodBloomberg Obama: I'm No VPWashington Post The Case for Obama's Readiness Yahoo! News 'Hillary manages to nearly erase Obama's lead'Sify Obama mocks VP talk as race heads to Mississippi AFP Clinton-Obama battle heads South CNN International Obama Looks to Miss. for MomentumThe Associated Press Tight 'Super Tuesday' for Clinton, Obama Hindustan Times Can Hillary Clinton still win?BBC News it is impossible for either one to secure the 2,025 delegates that would give them the Democratic nomination with pledged delegates alone. ..... Obama will have more pledged delegates than she will ...... Obama also has a clear upper hand with super-delegates so long as he has the majority of pledged delegates and the majority of the popular vote. ...... 57% of Americans think the candidate with the most votes should win the Democratic nomination. ... Six months is plenty of time to build an unbeatable argument for super-delegate support .... Six months is plenty of time to build an unbeatable argument for super-delegate support Clinton-Obama Ticket? Obama Says No WayCBS News Obama: Clinton lacks standing to offer me VP spotBaltimore Sun 2 Clinton Backers Offer a Way to Stage New PrimariesNew York Times A resurrection that would bring life to Clinton's campaignGlobe and Mail Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution RingNew York Times caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month ...... apologized for his behavior, and described it as a “private matter.” ..... “I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” said Mr. Spitzer, who appeared with his wife Silda at his Manhattan office. “I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better.” ...... I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family. ....... Both had glassy, tear-filled eyes ..... charged out of the room, slamming the door. ..... The governor’s aides appeared shaken before he spoke, and one of them began to weep ....... Client 9 met with the woman in hotel room 871 ..... Spitzer had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. ..... his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades. ..... As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
Nepal Maoist leader hits the campaign trail Tehran Times Just over two years ago, Nepal's former rebel Maoist chief Prachanda was on Interpol's most wanted list. Now he is campaigning for elections ..... The man who waged a decade-long revolt to topple the 239-year-old monarchy and install a communist regime now favors expensive watches, travels in a fancy sports utility vehicle and is escorted by dozens of security personnel.
Obama's Black Support Shows Its Limits The Associated Press Obama's heavy black support is nudging some working-class white Democrats into Clinton's camp .... Clinton won nearly two out of every three white votes in Ohio, and 56 percent of those in Texas .... Pennsylvania's demographic similarities to Ohio ..... Ohio, where 62 percent of all whites lack college degrees and many are anxious about their jobs in a weak economy. .... their resentment can have social and racial overtones. ..... the Clintons "were trying to use race to their political advantage, to cede the black vote to Obama and take the rest" ..... the steep drop in Obama's share of the white vote in Ohio compared to Wisconsin. ..... record turnout among black voters. "In many states, the black vote has doubled" ...... Philadelphia's black neighborhoods could help Obama next month.
Obama wins in Wyoming, adds 7 delegates Kansas City Star, USA Obama generally has outperformed Clinton in caucuses, which reward organization and voter passion more than do primaries. ..... Obama had 61 percent, or 5,378 votes, to Clinton's 38 percent, or 3,312 votes, with all 23 Wyoming counties reporting. .... You won't see me as a vice presidential candidate - you know, I'm running for president ..... "We have won twice as many states as Senator Clinton, and have a higher popular vote, and I think we can maintain our delegate count."
